Dave and I went to my Mom & Dad's house today - he went upstairs and did a sweep of one of the hardly-ever-used bedrooms... something I haven't had the energy for yet. After a while he came downstairs with an armful of papers - old greeting cards, funeral notices, newspaper clippings. Things I'd never seen before and some I had. Mom's birth announcement from July 1930 - my kindergarten report card among a stack of others that ranged up until high school.

Probably did this around grade 1. I have no recollection of painting it, but there are familiar things about it. Somewhere back in the cobwebs of my brain I kind of recall wanting bricks to appear rough & I can see how the brush was scrubbed across the sheet... the clouds are in a group of three and overlap, the sun is cropped out at the corner... all things that I still do when drawing.